Philolaus
Φιλόλαος
(Φιλόλαος), that is, friend of the people, was a surname of Asclepius, under which he had a temple in Laconia (Paus. 3.22.7). It occurs also as the proper name of a son of Minos and the nymph Pareia, in Paros. (Apollod. 1.9.5, 3.1.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.